Disclaimer: I own nothing from the Harry Potter universe, although it would be kool if i did. I simply just like to toy with them...
A/N: Hello there every one... I come bearing a gift, which is chapter 9 of course! Well first things first. I would like to thank everyone for reviewing. Not many people did but my guesses were because HBP is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better. This chap…I am sorry to say doesn't have the detention in it but next chapter does! I hope not very many of you are disappointed. Well…enough chat for now…on with the story. Enjoy!
Tortured Souls
Chapter 9: The Greatest and Longest Day Of All Time
Today, there was only one thing on Draco's mind and that was he detention with the Weasel.
For some unknown reason he couldn't get his mind off of her. He couldn't get the images of the previous day and his encounter with her out of his memory. Mind you, he wasn't trying all that hard.
His first class that day was Transfigurations with the Ravenclaws. 'Oh joy. Stuck with the know-it-alls for over an hour. What a long day it's gonna be.'
Since it was a Monday he would have Transfigurations with the Ravenclaws, then Defense Against the Dark Arts with the Hufflepuffs, Ancient Ruins with all the people who past their N.E.W.Ts and finally Potions with any one lucky enough to pass the N.E.W.Ts what with Snape being the professor.
Of course he was lucky enough since Snape and his father were acquainted and Lucius would have it no other way. Like always.
Draco sat bored out of his mind as Professor McGonagall droned on, on how to transfigure a dove into a quill. Something he already knew how to do since 5th year. His mind slowly drifted back to the red headed 6th year who was probably imagining cursing him into something horrid.
How could he have been so stupid? Just kissing her like that. Out of nowhere. What was he thinking?
'Malfoy you have gone completely mad.' He thought to himself.
"Mr. Malfoy will you stop daydreaming and answer my question?" said McGonagall impatiently, with a stern look in her eyes.
"Sorry professor may you please repeat it?" Draco replied with an innocent tone in his voice as he earned a stern look from Professor McGonagall.
'Today is really gonna be a long day' He thought as he sighed to himself.
-----Ginny's POV-----
Ginny stared at the clock, from her desk. She was counting down the minutes until lunch. And at this precise moment it was '45 minutes and 17 seconds. Now 16, 15-'
" Ms. Weasley the clock will not move any faster by staring at it then it does when you aren't. I can assure you that." Said a cold voice from the front of the room.
" I know professor but it was worth a try." Ginny said with an innocent tone and a smile to match.
Professor Snape stared at Ginny with his cold black eyes for a minute and then walked over to the chalk bored and charmed it to start writing the ingredients and the instructions for the potion that they were going to make today.
"Class you will have a half an hour to complete this potion, which will give you more then enough time. Now begin." Snape stated and walked over to his desk and started to write something on a long piece of parchment.
Ginny slowly got up from her desk and walked over to the back of the classroom to collect the ingredients she needed. When she got them all she went back to her desk and read over the procedure. After that she started to begin.
She liked making potions. It was just something she was good at. She felt like that was a talent the rest of her family didn't have. Not even Percy got the marks Ginny did in potions. She was quite proud of herself really. Charlie didn't really care about potions that much nor did Bill and Ron, well lets just say, it's not his strength. The only ones who were almost as good as her were the Twins. Maybe that's where she got it from.
Fred and George had a special thing for potions. Snape didn't like them all that much but they still got high marks in it that no one else would have ever thought they could. And you could even tell that they were good because the Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes was doing great.
Ginny added her wolf's bane and ginger root to her potion and the smoke turned from a light yellow to a midnight blue just like the instructions said. She smiled. Yes, she was good at potions.
She took a look around the class and noticed that only a few students had the colour it was supposed to be. Colin Creevey's potion was a bright green colour, which was nowhere what it was no where close to the stated colour and Anthony Goldstein's potion was a very violent shade of pink. This made Ginny laugh to herself.
" Mr. Creevey," Snape's cold voice said slowly. "Did you read over the instructions?"
"Yes, Professor," Colin said in a quiet and scared tone.
"Well clearly you haven't. Does it not say that before you add the wolf's bane and ginger root you must stir the potion for 5 minutes?" he asked with his voice becoming colder with his every word.
"Yes, sir"
"And did you do what it said?"
"No, sir"
"Well that will be a zero for you. Now clean your caldron and get started on the paper work."
"Yes, sir," Colin said and cleaned out his cauldron.
Ginny always felt sorry when ever that happened to Colin, which was quite often. Sometimes Snape could just be cruel. Wait not sometimes, all the time.
The rest of potions went by fairly slowly. At the end of class Ginny scooped some of her potion into a vile and set it on Snape's desk. She walked back to her desk collected all her stuff and left.
She wasn't all that sure if she wanted to go and eat lunch but her stomach got the best of her, again.
While on her way to the Great Hall, she met Luna.
"Hey Luna" Ginny said with a warm smile.
"Hey there Gin." She greeted. "Are you going to the Great Hall?"
"Yup, wanna join me?"
"Sure." Luna replied and they walked down a corridor full of hungry people.
"So how's your day going so far?" Luna asked ask they walked past a few people who were staring and whispering at the site of the two girls together.
" Boring. How about yours?"
" Well the usual. Wake up, eat breakfast, go to class, then got to another class and then here we are."
"Sounds like fun."
" Ha, it never is." Luna said with a laugh.
" Agreed." Ginny said as her and Luna walked into the Great Hall.
-----Draco's POV-----
Draco sat at the Slytherin table drinking some pumpkin juice out of his goblet staring hungrily at his plate piled with food or rather what used to be piled with food. He thought lunch would never come. Class could be so boring at times, or all the time. Just when he started to look for his friend he felt someone sit beside him.
"Hey Drakey." Blaise said in a cheerful tone.
"What are you so happy about?" Draco said, raising a perfectly shaped eyebrow.
"Why only because today is just the greatest day of all time," Blaise said as if he was shocked that Draco didn't know.
" And what makes it so great?"
"Oh like you don't know," Blaise said with a smile and reached over and tried to ruffle Draco's hair.
" Don't touch the hair," Draco said in a dangerous tone while stopping Blaise's hand in mid air.
" Jeez mate you'd think you would be happy."
"And what gives you that impression?" Draco asked while turning back to his half- full plate of food.
"Well from what I heard, someone got a bit of the Weasley girl yesterday."
Draco almost choked on his chicken.
" WHAT?" He exclaimed and got several stares in return by he paid no attention to them.
" Hey I'm only saying what I heard."
"Who did you hear that from?" Draco said urgently but trying to hide it all the same, but failing miserably.
"Well it's not like there aren't people on the grounds on a Saturday morning. The thing I'm mad about is how come you didn't tell me? After all I am your best mate," said Blaise with a fake look of hurt on his face.
"Oh bloody hell," Draco exclaimed and put his head into his hands.
-----Ginny's POV-----
Ginny sat alone at the Gryffindor table eating a piece of chicken and took a sip of pumpkin juice. She found that ever since she ran out of the Great hall a couple days ago many people kept starring at her, just in case another incident like that happened so they could tell everyone that they saw the whole thing.
Like Ginny kept telling her self, she didn't know how much more of this she could take. All the stares, the whispers, the tears, everything. And know she had to deal with what happened between her and Malfoy.
As she looked up from her plate her eyes rested on none other then the Slytherin Prince himself. It looked like him and Zambini were having a conversation and by the looks of it Blaise seemed to be really happy.
'Probably found a new whore for this week' Ginny thought bitterly.
She just didn't get it. How can they just use girls and then throw them away like they are rubbish or something? They probably don't even know how many girls' hearts they have broken. It's like they couldn't careless.
' They probably don't.'
Ginny was so consumed by her thoughts that she didn't even realize that the bell had already rang and that the Great Hall was almost completely empty.
" Ginny…um…Ginny? Hello earth to Ginny," said a soft voice to the right of her.
"Hmmm?"
"Snap outta it Gin! Come on, we gotta get to class. It starts in 3 minutes."
With the last words ringing in her head she snapped out of her thoughts and looked at her watch.
"Oh shit, I have Divination." She said in an alarmed tone.
"Correction, we have Divinations, and better get the hell on out of here if we plan on getting there in reasonable time," said Luna, who was already half way out of the Great Hall.
"Wait up Luna! I can't walk that fast!"
-----Draco's POV-----
'I don't know how much more of this I can take before these classes drive me mad' Draco thought as he stared into space.
He was receiving very strange stares and he couldn't figure out if it was because he was starring at nothing in particular or if they heard about him and the Weasley girl. After all new does travel fast in Hogwarts.
'Great another thing to deal with. As if I don't have enough to think about. Aren't I the lucky one?'
"Draco stop daydreaming and start the work so I can copy off of you!" said an impatient tone, which was coming from the left side of him.
"Blaise it wouldn't hurt you in the least bit if you, for once, did your own homework."
"Of course it would hurt me."
" How so?"
"Well here it is. If I did my own homework, by myself, my grades would drop tremendously and then my father will eventually find out. You know how it goes from there. So there is the reason why it is essential for me so copy off of you."
"It sounds like you've put a lot of thought into that explanation."
"Well what can I say? I have a lot of time on my hands."
"I would have never had guess." Draco said as he watched Blaise's attention turn onto a fly, which was flying around both of them and ended with Blaise going cross-eyed trying to find it.
'If only he had a longer attention span' Draco sighed as he thought, and got out his parchment, ink and quill and started on his homework.
He sighed inwardly and then looked over to his left and saw Blaise drooling on a piece of blank parchment as a snore escaped from between his lips.
'I hate long days' He thought while shaking his head and then went back to his homework assignment.
A/N: Well there you have it. Not that good I know. I have an idea…How about you tell me what you think about this chapter. Please try and be kind. Flames hurt and I have too many scars as it is. Well like I was saying before I will try and get chapter 10 up A-SAP. I am quite proud of that chapter and I think you all will enjoy it. I hope. Well again I would really like to send my thanks out to all my reviewers! You guys/girls really give me the confidence to keep writing. I would also like to get your opinions on me writing a one-shot fic about Ginny's feelings after HBP…I dunno I might give it a shot. Nothing big but hey...tell me what you think! Until next chapter,
-Scarlet Blood